Indian Cricket fans all over the world are mauling about how Dravid fared as a captain in the last 2 world cup matches. They are neophytes who didn't even know anything about cricket going loquacious on this topic. On the other end, there are experts(including chappel I hope) who are analyzing the data and digging to the bottom of it to suggest some valuable advices to him for the next match.
We been seeing lots of blogs lately in this cricket section talking about these matches and Dravid captaincy. I even published blogs on the match results and commented about his captaincy in my blogs.(http://houstonvijai.sulekha.com/blog/post/2007/03/we-will-be-back-back-with-vigor-and-vengeance.htm, http://houstonvijai.sulekha.com/blog/post/2007/03/bravo-india-but-its-not-over-yet.htm)
He is king'ed as the captain more than a year ago. He was able to bring on some good wins both in our home soil and some outside the territory. He managed to lead the team in difficult and failure times. Since those matches are just league matches, we didn't put those under our microscopic view to test find faults.
As soon it comes to worldcup, every matches falls under our radar screen for the clean lab test on each department. We start to complain about bowling, batting, fielding and captaincy all together. We as fans always do this and its common for any fans in any sport I have seen. There is anything wrong in it. But we should also appreciate the fact he took over the captiancy without much of an experience and he is been doing pretty good job.
Captaincy is a leadership skill which can't be learn thru books. It has to be gained thru experiences. You can be a good team player but it doesn't mean that you can take on as a leader and be captain. It didn't work well for Sachin. Leadership skill needs people management ability to go friendly at the same time hard on your teammates to accomplish the best for your team. Its a special skill.
" A good leader is not one who creates best followers. He is the one who creates best leaders"
As per me, he still miss lots of hard capabilities which is important for a captain to excel. We have seen good captiancy's from Kapil, Azy & Ganguly. They had the aggresiveness, power to move the team for their purpose, survive under tensed situation and make wise decisions. All these capabilities are a must for a good captain.
Things he should have done in the last 2 matches as per the critics are,
Bermuda match: He made a good decision on changing the batting position to get a good score. Also why Agarkar was included in the 11man team. Why can't we use Sreesthanth or Irfan ? He also missed on using Sachin earlier to get some break to bundle them soon. Also I wonder why he don't want to use Ganguly as an extra bowler.. These are some vital questions from these matches.
On SL match, taking all the past into consideration, we all have different match options in our mind ready to suggest to our indian team. I am seeing a strong discussion in the sulekha forum about it.
I think, we should make use of Irfan's all rounder capability to add extra batsment strength to the team with the bowling ability. Kumble would be my choice against Harbhajan.
Who knows, whats going in the Carribean dressing room ?! No one knows.. But as a vivid cricket fans, did we ever miss a chance to brainstorm options for our team in this situations. So why waste thinking about, lets do it.
If you were Dravid at this moment, What do you think is your best squad for the D-Day against SL? What do you do best to win the match? Shoot it out...
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